Eric Dieters, as he had previously announced, revealed new details about the former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Gilfoyle, this time through an interview he conducted with Jonathan Constantine, president of the Greek chapter of Republicans Overseas. At the center of the story are Christos Marafatsos, allegations of financial transactions involving millions of dollars, and claims of ties between individuals in the former ambassador’s inner circle and the Communist Party of China and the Revolutionary Guards.
Eric Ditters, a donor to the MAGA movement and former congressional candidate, is the person at the center of the revelations that preceded Gilfoyle’s departure from the U.S. Embassy in Athens.
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As reported by SKAI.gr, Ditters had alleged that Gilfoyle asked him to cover a personal credit card bill totaling $100,000, offering him access to Trump administration officials in exchange. The former ambassador has denied the allegations, while Ditters has filed a defamation lawsuit against her.
He had previously announced new revelations, even claiming that he has a recorded phone conversation from Greece with particularly incriminating content.
His phone conversation was with Jonathan Constantine, a lawyer and U.S. citizen who has led the Greek chapter of Republicans Overseas since 2019.
Constantine also heads the EastMed Strategic Studies Institute, a center for geostrategic studies that, according to him, collects and analyzes information on developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and provides briefings to Republican leaders and U.S. officials.
In his interview, he claimed that his organization has compiled approximately 20,000 pages of documents and data regarding Gilfoyle and the activities of individuals in her circle. These claims, as well as the serious allegations that follow, have not been verified.
The Role of Christos Marafatsos
At the center of the interview is Christos Marafatsos, whom Konstantin describes as the man who developed a particularly close relationship with Gilfoil and allegedly acted as an intermediary in her dealings with business interests.
Constantine questioned Marafatsos’s political background within the Republican Party, claiming that he had created the website “Greeks for Trump” without, he claimed, any official connection to the Republican Party or Donald Trump’s campaign.
He even went so far as to claim that donations collected through this initiative ended up in Marafatsos’s personal bank account, without, however, providing further evidence.
According to Konstantin, Marafatsos was presented to Gilfoil as someone who could open doors for her in Greece and subsequently gained significant access to her inner circle, even though he had previously visited the country only 2–3 times.
She made special mention of the lobbying firm Catalyst, which she claims Marafatsos founded after Gilfoil was selected for the position of ambassador.
Konstantin accused Marafatsos of using this particular business venture as a mechanism for funneling money to the former ambassador, describing him as a “bagman,” that is, a person who acts as an intermediary for the transfer of funds.
Allegations of payments totaling up to $2 million
One of the most serious points raised in the interview concerns the amounts that, according to Konstantin, allegedly ended up with Kimberly Gilfoyle through business activities and individuals in her circle.
Referring to the Aktor Group and its ties to Marafatsos, he claimed that while published figures show a sum of $400,000, other data—which he claims his organization possesses—raise the total amount to between 1.5 and 2 million dollars.
He claimed that part of the money passed through intermediaries and ended up with the former ambassador, speaking directly of bribery.
Konstantin also referred to other companies which, he claimed, were used to funnel money, mentioning, among other things, annual payments of around $40,000 to a company he described as a front for Chinese interests.
Allegations of Guilfoyle’s Ties to the Communist Party of China
Even more serious are Konstantin’s allegations regarding possible ties between Gilfoyle’s inner circle and the Communist Party of China.
The head of Republicans Overseas in Greece claimed that Christos Marafatsos had studied at the Confucius Institute while attending the University of Maryland, which —as he claimed—is a place where the Communist Party of China recruits agents.
He further claimed that Marafatsos later traveled to China and that his investigative team had uncovered relevant photographic evidence, which Marafatsos had deleted.
He even went so far as to describe Marafatsos as a person acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
Constantine also made another allegation, claiming that Marafatsos had gained access to Gilfoil’s private phone and was responding to messages intended for her.
According to him, his organization had sent reports to the then-ambassador regarding the infiltration of agents of the Communist Party of China into the U.S. Embassy and U.S. consulates in Greece.
As he claimed, at some point they realized that these communications were no longer being handled by Gilfoil herself, but by Marafatsos.
“We realized that all the documentation and reports we were sending were being read by an agent of the Chinese Communist Party,” she claimed.
She even cited a text message attributed to Gilfoil, in which she allegedly states: “Christos Marafatsos is my go-to guy for everything.”
The Connection to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Jonathan Constantine then went on to make allegations regarding business ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
When asked directly by Ditters whether his organization’s reports claimed that Gilfoil was collaborating with individuals linked to these two entities, he answered in the affirmative, claiming that “the Revolutionary Guards and the Chinese Communist Party have direct access to Kimberly Gilfoyle.”
The 20,000 pages of evidence and the questions that remain
Konstantin claimed that the material his organization has gathered on the former U.S. ambassador to Greece exceeds 20,000 pages.
He also noted that relevant reports have been forwarded to Republican officials, members of the U.S. Congress, the State Department, and U.S. security agencies.
As he claimed, there was interest from some recipients, but not the response he had expected.
The new allegations come just days after Kimberly Guilfoyle’s departure from the U.S. Embassy in Athens, in the wake of reports about financial dealings and her ties to business interests.
These are, however, extremely serious allegations that require substantiation. Marafatsos’ publicly documented lobbying activities do not, on their own, prove either that Gilfoil accepted bribes or that she had ties to Chinese or Iranian intelligence agencies.
Source: skai.gr
